Antonyms for twiddle
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : twid-l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈtwɪd l |
Definition of twiddle
Origin :- 1540s, "to trifle," of unknown origin; of the fingers, first recorded 1670s. Figurative phrase twiddle one's thumbs "have nothing to do" is recorded from 1846; to twirl one's thumbs in the same sense is recorded from 1816. Related: Twiddled; twiddling.
- verb fiddle
- A man who has been active hates 270 to sit down and twiddle his thumbs.
- Extract from : « The Place of Honeymoons » by Harold MacGrath
- Then I did remember more or less, while Hans continued to twiddle the hat.
- Extract from : « The Ivory Child » by H. Rider Haggard
- I twiddle your little good Andrew to assert it for us twenty times a day.
- Extract from : « Evan Harrington, Complete » by George Meredith
- Get under the pilot an' sort o' twiddle ye off the track, don't they?
- Extract from : « The Day's Work, Volume 1 » by Rudyard Kipling
- Waiting the answer, he joined his hands, and began to twiddle his thumbs.
- Extract from : « The Wandering Jew, Complete » by Eugene Sue
- And the rest of us are to sit and twiddle our thumbs while you soliloquize?
- Extract from : « The Idiot at Home » by John Kendrick Bangs
- On the other side he could twiddle his fingers at the corporal, who dared not pursue.
- Extract from : « The Sheriff of Badger » by George B. Pattullo
- And I think, by then, she'll be able to twiddle over them wires by herself.'
- Extract from : « The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) » by Fanny Burney
- They simply reach into our minds and twiddle around and—zoop!
- Extract from : « The Slizzers » by Jerome Bixby
- We his tools, when the silly ass hasn't wits to twiddle his own thumbs?
- Extract from : « Cardigan » by Robert W. Chambers
Synonyms for twiddle
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